Omaha daily bee., 1887-11-21
The Roy at the Dime Museum.


"Will you ever be that fatp"
81 hope not"
"Whyp"
"Bccauso don't want to be so fat"
"Does it hurtY"
MOL think not"
"Thenwhy don't you want to DO so
fat2"
because I couldn't got around"
"But you wouldn't have to get around.
Papa could get big table an you could
set on it an"
Hush"
"Why?"
"If you don't hush I'll take you out OF
here"
..D "Po you have to pay to go out9"
but you had to pay to come in didn't
your"
Yes
"Why don't you have to pay to go
out?"
"If you don't"
''Oh, look there! What's that man
doingY"
Spinning glass"
How spinning, it?'
81 don't know"
"Then how do you know he's spinning
ityn
"1f you don't hush this very minute
IN spank you when get home. You
tritling little rascal, you annoy mo al
most to death"
After short silence. "Ma, what's
anuoyp'
Bother"
"What's bother?"
care you going to hush?" turning
ficrcely upon him.
"Oh, what's that?"
"The Circassan lady,"
"What's the matter with her hair?'
Nothing, it's natural"
'How naturalp'
"It was always that way"
"When she was II little ticncy baby?'
"Gracious alive, no."
ways?'
Sho took hold of his ear. couch,
now!"
Don't you cry here. If you do III
whip you when we get home"
why mustn't cry here?'
Everybody would laugh at YOU"
"Would the fat woman laugh?"
eyes"
"Whyp"
care you going to hushp"
"Yessum. What arc them men
doin?"
"They are cowboys showing"
"What's cowboy?"
ga man that drives cattle ON tho
plains"
''If he's a man, how can he be boyp"
Didn't | tell you that I'd whip you il
you didn't hush2"
"Yessum. Are thero any calf boys?'
81 think not"
Little children would be calf boys,
wouldn't they?"
II suppose So"
"No."
"Why2"
eff you don't hush this very minute
I'll wear you out. You shall never go
anywhere with me again, never, never
so long as you live"
81 couldn't go after quit livin' could
II"
"No.n.
"Ill be an angel then, won't II"
81 suppose So"
"Will 1 look like bird?'.
81 don't know"
"I.ike chickenP"
"Merciful heavens, no!"
"What will | look like?"
81 don't know. Now, hush"
''But can fly, can't {"
eyes"
.".v,Way y up highS"
Wont I fall!"
81 can ketch birds, can't II"
81 don't know"
But if can fly fast I can, can't II"
"Will l go around and wrestle with
people?",
"What! You triGing rascal, what do
you mean, say?'
'Why, you read in the bible that
Jacob wrestled with an angel"
''I'm going to tell your father to whip
you just us soon rs we get home. 1oul
see, sir-mind if you don't You prom
lsed to be a good boy, but you have
been meaner than you ever were boz
FORE
'Please don't tell him"
"Will you be good?"
''YeSSum."
After u few moments OF silence.
''Look at that man, got on wonans
Clothes"
"That's not a man. It's the bearded
lady"
"How bearded?"
SCOT whiskersr"
"Will you have whiskersvs
"NO."
"Why?"
81 don't-look here, didn't you tell
me that you would be soodp You give
me the horrors"
"What's the horrors?"
Come here to me-" She seized him,
and, as she WAS hurrying from the house
n man addressed her, saying that the
performance had begun down stairs.
"Ma, what's the performance"
She jerked him through the door
and dragged him away.
Aberdeen has been designated as the
permanent headquarters of the terri
torial Farmers alliance. A large ware